Elon Musk has never been shy about challenging humanity’s assumptions. His latest argument is as provocative as it is urgent: the world needs more people, not fewer. In an age where many nations see their populations shrinking, and where cultural narratives often paint humanity as a burden rather than a blessing, Musk is reframing the conversation. The real battle of our time, he says, is between expansionist and extinctionist philosophies. Do we grow, explore, and multiply, or do we allow civilization to wither into irrelevance?
Continue reading… “The State of Global Fertility”Population in more than 20 countries to halve by 2100: Study
Japan, Italy, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain and Thailand will see their numbers diminish by at least half by 2100 [File: Reuters]
The Earth will be home to 8.8 billion people in 2100, two billion fewer than current UN projections, says new study.
More than 20 countries, including Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain and Thailand, will see their numbers diminish by at least half by the year 2100, according to projections in a major study.
China’s population will fall from 1.4 billion people today to 730 million in 80 years, said the study led by an international team of researchers, published in The Lancet on Wednesday.
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The Population Bomb Has Been Defused
The Earth and humanity will survive as fertility rates fall almost everywhere.
Some of the most spectacularly wrong predictions in history have been made by those who claim that overpopulation is going to swamp the planet. Thomas Malthus, a British economist writing in the late 1700s, is the most famous of these. Extrapolating past trends into the future, he predicted that population growth would inevitably swamp available food resources, leading to mass starvation. That didn’t happen — we continued to develop new technologies that let us stay ahead of the reaper.
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